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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

One Stoplight Town | A free pattern!

A few months ago, designer Laurie Wisbrun sent me a bundle of half-yard cuts of her adorable new line, Pooches & Pickups for Robert Kaufman fabrics. I immediately fell in love with the vibrant primary colors of the line and the versatile prints that are appropriate for little and big boys alike!

I was inspired to design and make an original quilt pattern, and today I'm making the pattern available for all of my wonderful readers! It's a quick and easy-to-assemble pattern, with nice big blocks to show off the line's large-scale prints.

The retro vibe of the vintage pick-up trucks and the big dogs riding in the back called to mind summer afternoons, drive-in movies, old school gas pumps, and the very best laid-back country music, all of which combined to inspire the name of my pattern: One Stoplight Town.

I selected several shades of Kona cotton solid fabrics to complement the prints, and incorporated them into the design.

I also have the perfect recipient for this quilt in mind. A childhood friend of mine and her husband had their first baby -- a boy -- a little over a year ago. I've long been wanting to make a quilt especially for baby Mason, but lacked both the time and the perfect selection of boy-friendly prints that could grow with him. I'm glad I waited, because Pooches & Pickups is the perfect match!

Interested in making your own version of this quilt? Download a PDF of the free pattern here: One Stoplight Town

If you make One Stoplight Town, I'd love to see it! Please send me a photo or a link to your blog or Flickr stream.

And Laurie was generous enough to send an extra fat quarter bundle of Pooches & Pickups for a lucky Quilt Dad reader. Want a chance to win? Simply leave a comment on this post and let me know another fabric combination that you think would really bring One Stoplight Town to life!

All the lines make me want to add some curves in some fashion. The first thing that came to mind were some great metro living dots in brown - chocolate brown! And I love your pattern. Nice work. Thanks for sharing!

I think this pattern would work with ANY line of fabric but right now I am thinking Christmas so what about Ready Set Snow? Oooo or Ghastlies would look great in this quilt. I think I need to go shop now. thanks for a great pattern.

I have two girls, so I tend to think in 'girl' colours (even though my eldest is not a 'girly-girl' LOL). I'd love to make this up in Aneela Hooey's Little Apples - to remind me of my one stoplight town. :)

I think some of David Butler's new and soon to be available Curious Nature would be fab with this. Or maybe some primary color polka dots or stripes. I hope I win, have liked this since it came out. Thanks for the chance.

Those prints are so fun. I'm getting ready to have our first son so I'd love to win. I think that some large geometric prints with some more solids mixed in would give this pattern a fun grown up and modern feel.

I LOVE this fabric . I could see the woven haze stripe from Kaffe in the pine colorway going well with this . Also your recent Sleeping Beauty line of fabric comes to mind . I LOVED the leaf pattern in that line . Have to get my hands on some of that .

Great job - great vision for this larger scale print. Another larger scale might be wrenly - I love those birdies, but not sure I want to cut them up. Or Tula Pink's collections - sometimes it is fun to chop up and hide the design, but sometimes you want to remember there's really a snail in that scallop. Actually, lots of little boy prints (the Timeless treasures shipyard prints) would be good here - they want to see the vehicles!

I would try this pattern with some Caleb Gray Robot Factory and some solids for extra boy fun and added punch! The larger pieces are great for some novelty fabric. It's wonderful to have a pattern that shows off the fun fabric I'm always stocking up on! Don't tell!

That pattern is super cute! If I was working with Laurie's fabrics it would need to be my all time fave Tufted tweets other than that the size of the blocks lend themselves really well to the Echino Fall 2011 line.

I was actually thinking of taking it the girly direction and using florals with a solid green for the small strips, like grass or leaves, but then I saw someone else's post about red, yellow and green and thought that was super cute!

Great quilt. It shows off the fabric so well. I'm thinking for a girl maybe some Heather Bailey fabrics. I think it could show off some of her larger floral prints really well. Again, your work is wonderful. I love little boy prints.

Thanks John, that is so fun! I bet a bunch of Kaffe Ikats/stripes with shots as the vertical bars would look very different, but also give it a cool guy-vibe! There's tons of awesome new robot fabric out now, too which would be fun.

Ohhh... terrain. Totally. I love that the pieces are big enough to allow whatever fabric is chosen to actually stand out. I love intricate quilts, but some fabrics are just too gorgeous to chop up so small!

i really like the way that there's a natural line to all of the prints and you've inserted the kona lines in the other direction. i think tula pink's prince charming prints have the same sort of "natural line" feel to them with the frogs and the raindrops.

Wonderful pattern. And very cute fabric. I can also see this pattern in Sherbet Pips by Aneela Hoey, or even something Christmassy like The 12 Days of Christmas by Kate Spain. Thanks for a great giveaway.

I reckon this would look great with pretty much any fabric combo - always the sign of a great pattern - but for now I'd say dots & spots, lots of them in various colours. Thanks for a great giveaway & a fab pattern too!

When I read your post title, I thought that you had borrowed one of my comments. I live near a one stoplight town (the only stoplight in the county). When my family first moved here, that stoplight was upside down and weekend night fun was sitting at the stoplight to see if anyone drove by... and my brother's dog always rides in the back of his pickup. So, want to win!BTW, Robot Factory or Superhero (think that's the name) would be great boy's fabrics for your pattern. I love it! Thanks for the giveaway.

I love this fabric - I've had my eye on it for a while. I think lots of grays would be so cute with these prints. Specifically, Riley Blake's Alphabet Soup Circles in gray - I great match, I think. Thanks for the great giveaway!

I have a collection of skin prints that would look fabulous with black. Thanks for the pattern and the chance to win the terrific fabric.BTW - I live in such a small town we have ZERO stoplights. LOL!!Deborah

Fab quilt again, John. I think this'd look great with the Riley Blake range with the birds (don't know the exact name) but also with Countdown to Christmas for a seasonal quilt. Please, please, please let me win.......

I am working on a quilt with Hometown right now, and I think that would be most appropriate for "One Stoplight Town" I kinda miss the days where there were more one stoplight towns. I love this fabric and have thought of getting some for my grandson, but just haven't gotten to it yet. I'd love to win some though...here's hoping.

I'd love to win, new follower to your blog, saw from timeless star quilt competition link. I'm almost your neighbor, used to live in cary, now in the sticks of pittsboro! check out my blog and website :-) www.beaquilter.com

I am a sucker for sports themed fabric and collect half yard pieces whenever I see them. Football, basketball, baseball, lacrosse...I am the mum of four boys and each of the boys is a sports fanatic. Our garage full of cleats, sticks, bats, and balls proves it! Thanks for the chance. smdecoste@yahoo.com

Using the palette of Cosmo Cricket Circa with coordinating kona solids, then adding some of the Echino vehicle and dots prints might provide an interesting version of this very masculine quilt. However, I really do like the one you made with the glorious old pickup prints of the very talented Laurie, I'm grateful for your ideas and postings to help me make a quilt for one of my nephews but a quilt he might like! Thank-you.

Red, Yellow, and Green solids??? like a stoplight? No, seriously, your pattern would be gorgeous with some neutrals (grey/taupe/black). I am a dog lover and adore the fabric! Please pick me Mr Random Number Generator.